Strug, Andrzej

He studied at the Institute of Agriculture and Forestry in Pulawy , where he took part in the illegal activities of the Polish Socialist Party . In 1895 he was arrested by the tsarist authorities and imprisoned in the Warsaw Alexander Citadel , after the court he was exiled to the Arkhangelsk province (1897-1900).

After returning from exile in 1901-1904 he studied at the philosophical department of the Jagiellonian University .

Member of the revolution of 1905-1907 in Poland . He led the peasant department of the teaching staff, edited Narodnaya Gazeta (Paul. Gazeta Ludowa) and Rural Worker (Robotnik Wiejski).

After the suppression of the revolution, he fled to Paris, where he lived until 1914. In 1908 he joined the PPS, the revolutionary faction led by Yu. Pilsudsky .

During World War I, in the rank of Wahmister, he fought in the ranks of the Polish legions of Pilsudski. In 1915-1918 - political referent of the Polish military organization .

In 1918 - deputy. Minister of Propaganda in the Provisional People’s Government, Prime Minister I. Dashinsky , proclaimed in Lublin, Polish People’s Republic .

In 1918-1919 he edited the journal "Government and the Army" ( Rząd i Wojsko ).

He was one of the organizers and twice chairman (1924, 1935) of the Trade Union of Polish Writers.

In 1920 - a member of the Great National Polish Lodge, in 1922-1925 - her great master ^[4] .

He was elected by the senator from the faculty. After 1926, became close to the left wing of the faculty, participated in the anti-fascist movement

In 1933, refused membership in the Polish Academy of Literature . In 1934 he headed the League for the Protection of Human Rights and Citizen, in 1936 became a member of the committee of the International Organization for Assisting the Fighters of the Revolution .

He made his debut as a literary critic in 1902. After death in 1925, Art. Zheromsky was considered a new embodiment of the conscience of Polish literature .

The stories and tales of the first period of creativity were written by the writer on the basis of the experience of the 1905 revolution, which reflects the revolutionary struggle, tragedy and sacrifice of the feat of revolutionary intellectuals (collections of short stories "People of the Underground" (1908-1909), "Tomorrow ..." (1908), " From the recollections of an old sympathizer ”(1908),“ The Story of a Bomb ”(1910),“ Portrait ”(1912)).

The cycle of short stories “Our Fathers” (1911) describes the events of the January 1863 uprising in Poland . The First World War and the combat path of the Pilsudski legions were embodied in the stories of A. Strug “Chimera” (1918), “Award for faithful service” (1921), “Tomb of the Unknown Soldier” (1922).

The 1925 novels “Generation of Mark Svida” (filmed in 1929 by director M. Kravich in the film entitled “ Sinful Love ”), “Money” (1921), “Career” are devoted to his disappointments in the reality of independent Poland, as well as the exposure of post-war bourgeois reality. cashier of Spevankevich "(1928).

Socio-political relations in the period of the Polish interwar twenty years depicted in satirical works "Great Day" and others.

In 1932-1933 he published the well-known pacifist trilogy “The Yellow Cross”, which shows the crime of imperialist war.

• Kronika niedoszłych wydarzeń (1926),
• Fortuna kasjera Śpiewankiewicza (1928)
• Miliardy (1937-1938)
• Pisma (volumes 1-20, 1930-1931).

• Officer Cross of the Order of the Renaissance of Poland (1925)
• Golden Academic Laurels (1935)

• Strug Andrzej (Polish)